The pro-extinctionist philosopher who has sparked a battle over humanity's future

Given all the suffering, pain and destruction produced by humanity, Émile Torres, who is a non-binary philosopher specialising in existential threats, thinks that it would not be a bad thing if humanity ceased to exist. "The pro-extinctionist view," they say, "immediately conjures up for a lot of people the image of a homicidal, ghoulish, sadistic maniac, but actually most pro-extinctionists would say that most ways of going extinct would be absolutely unacceptable. But what if everybody decided not to have children? I don't see anything wrong with that." Torres has just written a book called Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation.